FALL 2008 JOINT ME/ECE SEMINARS
Each semester, the Department of Mechanical Engineering holds research seminars which are open to all faculty and students. The department invites speakers from the department as well as outside on research topics of interest to the faculty and students. These seminars are held on Thursdays, 11:00 - 12:00 pm, in room SL 165, unless otherwise stated.
In the following, you will find the schedule for this semester's seminars along with the speaker and abstract information. (Click on the Title for the abstract.) Please check this page regularly for updated information. For more information, contact Dr. Guofeng Wang at wang83@iupui.edu. Schedules of previous semesters may be accessed from the News and Events main page.
- August 28, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 008
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Christopher, Assistant Professor, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
Title: 3D Imaging and VLSI Applications
- September 4, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: R. Edwin García, Assistant Professor, School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Title: Next Generation Energy Sources Through Microstructure Modeling and Design
- September 8, Monday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Dr. Peihua Gu, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Title: Comparison and Inspection of Free-Form Surface
- September 11, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Dr. Yao Liang, CS Department, IUPUI
Title:Energy Efficient and Reliable Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
- September 18, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Dr. Evgeny Shafirovich, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Title: Combustion of Metals for Mars Propulsion and Fuel Cell Applications
- September 25, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 148
Speaker: Dr. Huanmei Wu
Title: Managing tumor respiratory motion in Image Guided Radiation Treatment
- October 2, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Bo Xu, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, China
Title: Molecular Self-assembly: From Unitary to Binary System
- October 9, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Edward J. Delp
Title: Security: Content Protectionand Sensor Forensics
- October 16, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: J.M. McDonough, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Title: Synthetic-Velocity, Subgrid-Scale Models for Large-Eddy Simulation of Interactions of Turbulence with Other Physics
- October 23, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Dr. Malika Mahoui, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Adjunct Professor, ECE
Title: Biofacets: A Facet-Based Integration System for Efficient Querying of Remote Scientific Databases
- October 30, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Chagarlamudi V K Mohan, Graduate Student, Purdue School Of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
Title: Design of an Asphalt Zipper drum &CFD analysis of a medium duty truck
- November 6, Thursday, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Jingxin Liu, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Title: Unsteady CFD Simulations of Moving-body Flows by a Dynamic Unstructured Overset Grid Method
- November 6, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Dr. Xukai Zou, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, IUPUI
Title: Trusted Collaborative Computing (TCC): Challenges, Solutions and Applications
- November 13, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: Yue Qi, Research Scientist, Materials & Processes Lab, General Motors R&D (Warren, MI)
Title: Computational Materials Design for Aluminum Dry Machining and Quick Plastic Forming
- December 4, Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Room SL 165
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
- December 8, Thursday, 4:30pm - 6:00 pm, Room SL 165
Title: Final Project Presentations
